So we aren't going to discuss it?

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Forrest Whitaker played Idi Amin in an Oscar winning performance
Djimon played Cinque and was the face and body of Calvin Klein for years

Talk about mass appeal

Forrest Whittaker was not the main protagonist as I clearly stated. Also Amistad was not a commercial success at the Box Office. Again, none of those guys has the marketability of Will Smith.
 

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I'm happy they cast a black man with a black wife and black children who is unashamed to be black.


They could have cast a white man and gone the 'based on a true story' route. Or focused on white colleagues and made him a side character in his own story.

In the war of picking battles, let this one go and let Will get his damn Oscar nomination, bruh.

I hope people go see the movie and get the message about TBI's out there, but let's call a spade a spade...

Can't we do both?
 

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Forrest Whittaker was not the main protagonist as I clearly stated. Also Amistad was not a commercial success at the Box Office. Again, none of those guys has the marketability of Will Smith.

Marketability is a corporate code word for not white or light enough
 

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I guess we aren't going to mention how Hollywood and the media is portraying Dr. Omalu ?

He's a very handsome elder Black man... Looks like my granddaddy....a round teddy bear type
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So this actually is gonna go unnoticed?
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The history that is currently being written is that Dr. Omalu was 6 inches taller, slim and trim, and light skin.

Damn they fukking with history long before the witnesses are gone...
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Knowing good and damn well these brothers would have been a better fit
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And before y'all even start, not only are they
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What's the solution to this brehs and brehettes?
My favorite part about this story was how it was brought to light by a short, dark skinned Nigerian who can't stand Football and has no respect for its cultural significance or the people who make money off of it.
 

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Well one is black while one is mixed race. There's a difference there.

Only thing wrong with Will Smith being cast is his terrible generic African accent.

I think that is one of many things wrong with his casting and the casting of the wife
 

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Mane who gives a fukk. Its not like they casted someone who's not black. What were they supposed to find an actor who looks like his twin brother? All you're doing is nitpicking to make an argument

It's not nitpicking... There is an underlying issue here that is pervasive in how we treat one another and how we progress...

You can't continue to stick your head in the mud and deny what's going on
 

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Marketability is a corporate code word for not white or light enough
Marketability in this sense is due to fact that he is more famous than the other actors you mentioned. Beyond that he has been the lead in many movies as the main protagonist: Wild Wild West, Hancock, I-Robot, I Am Legend etc. All of these movies were commercially successful to a degree.. he's a safe bet as a black Hollywood actor promoting a blockbuster.
 

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Marketability in this sense is due to fact that he is more famous than the other actors you mentioned. Beyond that he has been the lead in many movies as the main protagonist: Wild Wild West, Hancock, I-Robot, I Am Legend etc. All of these movies were commercially successful to a degree.. he's a safe bet as a black Hollywood actor promoting a blockbuster.

Does the safe bet theory explain away the casting of the wife? :noneya:
 
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It's not nitpicking... There is an underlying issue here that is pervasive in how we treat one another and how we progress...

You can't continue to stick your head in the mud and deny what's going on
Your underlying issue is ignorant and are of the words of a colour struck moron, I'm doing myself a favor by not taking them seriously.
 

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We only have ourselves to blame, we have enough wealth in the community to build our own movie studios, production companies, and more tangible assets then do business with Hollywood, Bollywood, Nollywood, just to name a few

The result will be more young black entrepreneur men and women, more jobs for the youth

But these negroes with money are slaves, from the ones u see on tv to the ones u don't see on tv, the store manager of that grocery store in ur neighborhood, retail store u name it

All these black people with a little bit of money want to do is be accepted by whites and look down on other blacks stunting on each other

What u can do is don't watch it, work on u, get enough influence where u have control of ur own community, then start slowly undoing the brainwashing

once other blacks see that, they will be forced to consider ur methods especially if u are winning

People will follow u to hell if u win, none of us are as smart or complex as we think we are, people just be thinking they better than they is

However, u have the tools to use it, therefore if u use ur tools more than the next person u will naturally be better at that skill

I'm doing my part, we all got to play our positions for it to work
 
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